Someone once said – all the best stories ever told were stories of revenge.

The French novelist Alexandre Dumas is rightfully called the father of genre literature and the creator of a bunch of adventure fiction tropes that live to this day. His work marked the 19th century pop [...]

So you made it through my overly long retelling of the life and deeds of my favorite history’s tragic hero, Toshizo Hijikata. Congratulations – and thank you for sticking with me. It’s been a wild ride – this is a story that means so much [...]

Only a few months before the Battle of Toba-Fushimi, in the winter of 1867, the Shogun Yoshinobu Tokugawa did a very special thing for the Shinsengumi: he gave every single major member of the group the title of hatamo[...]